About

I’m an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an interest in social media, data driven reporting and digital media economics. I also train journalists and consult with newsrooms on editorial product development throughout North America and three other continents.

With funding from the Knight Foundation and Google, I help news organizations use digital public records to lower costs and increase revenue associated with accountability and explanatory journalism.

Before coming to UNC in 2007, I spent my career focusing on online journalism as the managing editor of USNews.com, the online arm of U.S. News & World Report, the managing editor for Congressional Quarterly’s Web site, www.cq.com, and the national/international editor for The Washington Post’s Web site, www.washingtonpost.com from 2003 to 2005. I started working in online news when I joined washingtonpost.com as a producer in 1997.